Ridiculous standards (was Re: Varchar2 vs Char)

From: Chrysalis <cellis_at_iol.ie>
Date: 1997/05/10
Message-ID: <3374B53D.4A56@iol.ie>#1/1

Graham Miller wrote:
>
> *snip*
>
> i have some interesting experiences of sites with restricted coding
> practises. One example is the site which made the rule that all
> sub-queries must use 'exists' never 'in'. Mostly quite reasonable,
> however, in some circumstances it is awful and the 'in' code is much
> quicker!
>

It cannot possible be "reasonable" to have such a ridiculous "standard". The two constructions are not even equivalent in theory and are certainly not so in practice.

Unfortunately, I remember similarly ridiculous restrictions in a COBOL shop (no nested ifs!).

Does anyone else have examples of couter-productive standards?

Chrysalis. Received on Sat May 10 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT